Rob Roy. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
amang Andrew Fairservice aneugh answer arms auld Baillie Baillie's baldistone brandy Campbell canna Captain Thornton carabines commanding cousin Diana Vernon dinna door Dougal doun dress Duke English escape Ewan exclaimed eyes family compact father the deacon feelings fire frae Gaelic Galbraith gang Garschattachin gentlemen Glasgow gude hand head heard Hieland Highland honest honour horses Inglewood instantly Jacobites Jobson kenn'd kinsman lake land length Loch Loch Lomond look Lowland MacGregor mair manded maun mind Miss Vernon mountains muckle naething never night officer Osbaldistone Osbaldistone-Hall ower party pass pistols plaid prisoner puir recollected replied Rob Roy Rob Roy's rock Sassenach scene Scotland seemed Sir Hildebrand Sir Rashleigh soldiers speak suld sword Syddall tartan there's thing thought tion tone wad hae wadna waur weel whilk wife wild wish
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 115 - Roy, whom he swore he loved and honoured as his own soul. In the inconsistency of his terror, he said, he was but the agent of others, and he muttered the name of Rashleigh. He prayed but for life — for life he would give all he had in the world : — it was but life he asked — life, if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations : he asked only breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of the lowest caverns of their hills. It is impossible to describe the scorn, the loathing,...
Strona 116 - But you — wretch ! you could creep through the world unaffected by its various disgraces,, its ineffable miseries, its constantly accumulating masses of crime and sorrow : you could live and enjoy yourself, while the noble-minded are...
Strona 117 - I was so much moved by this horrid spectacle, that, although in momentary expectation of sharing his fate, I did attempt to speak in his behalf, but, as might have been expected, my interference was sternly disregarded. The victim was held fast by some, while others, binding a large heavy stone in a plaid, tied it around his neck, and others again eagerly stripped him of some part of his dress.
Strona 63 - ... the bed of a broad mountain lake, lightly curled into tiny waves by the breath of the morning breeze, each glittering in its course under the influence of the sunbeams.. High hills, rocks, and banks, waving with natural forests of birch and oak, formed the borders 'of this enchanting sheet of water; and, as their leaves rustled to the wind and twinkled in the sun, gave to the depth of solitude a sort of life and vivacity.
Strona 116 - She gave a brief command, in Gaelic, to her attendants, two of whom seized upon the prostrate suppliant, and hurried him to the brink of a cliff which overhung the flood.
Strona 62 - I shall never forget the delightful sensation with which I exchanged the dark, smoky, smothering atmosphere of the Highland hut, in which we had passed the night so uncomfortably, for the refreshing fragrance of the morning air, and the glorious beams of the rising sun, which, from a tabernacle of purple and golden clouds, were darted full on such a scene of natural romance and beauty as had never before greeted my eyes. To the left lay the valley, down which the Forth wan dered on its easterly course,...
Strona 118 - But the knot had been securely bound; the wretched man sunk without effort; the waters, which his. fall had. disturbed, settled calmly over him, and the unit of that life for which he had pleaded so strongly, was for ever withdrawn from the sum of human existence.
Strona 116 - Gaelic to her attendants, two of whom seized upon the prostrate suppliant and hurried him to the brink of a cliff which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterwards.